Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Virginia

Black Water Monthly Meeting [Also called Surry, Burley and Gravelly Run Monthly Meeting before 1800] established: 1672, 1692, 1702 or 1737 depending upon the record, continued after 1752 as Surry or Black Water. Surviving records began in 1752. Divided: 1800 into Blackwater Monthly Meeting and (The Upper Gravelly Run, Burley) Monthly meeting. Discontinued: 1807. Previous to this time many references are made to "The monthly Meeting held at Black Water in Surry County" and later referred to as both Surry and Black Water, showing they are the same. From 1752 until the Meeting closed in the 1807 we have the minutes of the Blackwater [Surry] Meeting--Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society and Museums, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaschsm/2000S1204.html

From the description of Black Water Monthly Meeting, Manumissions, 1776 November 14-1779 May 31. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 630610831